President Ernest Koroma....better late than never....but more need to be done

Leaders who “say what they mean and mean what they say” are respected and admired.  This is a novelty especially in the 21st century where the competition for resources and the strategic need for alliances that facilitate development are of extreme importance

Anyone who has followed the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa will be worried at the news that Sierra Leone Immigration Officers are arresting hundreds of illegal foreign nationals because of what the Chief Immigration Officer refers to as “many anti-social activities orchestrated by alleged foreign nationals” (quoted in BBC website, 19/06/08). Whilst I am not questioning the need for the authorities to control immigration, I strongly object to the scapegoating of foreign nationals as criminals.

Journalism, the Fourth Estate of the realm is a noble and acknowledged profession the world all over.  Journalists have, among their arsenal of strategies the potential to either promote or derail the development plans of a country through their analysis of issues, programmes and socio-political leadership.

Several weeks ago, various papers carried either substantiated or unsubstantiated stories in which graphic details about huge sums of relatively scarce public funds were expended on foreign travel.  Various constructive suggestions were made and it seems president Koroma has reacted positively to them in the interest of the country

The Sierra Leone Military marches on to Kono amidst all the violence

It takes a little foresight and effort to envision that should things continue in the current vein much longer, Kono is going to experience a major eruption. The rate at which things are degenerating in the district seriously bothers the patriotic minds. In recent times, the district has manifested a seeming willingness to swap its legendary and much revered reputation of being “Best Basket of Sierra Leone” to that of “The Trouble Basket of Sierra Leone”

After a century that saw two world wars, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin’s Gulag, the killing fields of Cambodia, and more recent atrocities in Rwanda and now Darfur, the belief that we are progressing morally has become difficult to defend. Yet there is more to the question than extreme cases of moral breakdown. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In response to the crimes committed during World War II

Today’s soaring commodity prices scream a fundamental truth of modern life that many politicians, particularly in the West, don’t want us to hear: the world’s natural resources are finite, and, as billions of people in Asia and elsewhere escape poverty, Western consumers will have to share them. Here is another truth: the price mechanism is a much better way to allocate natural resources than fighting wars, as the Western powers did in the last century.

A Mobile phone carrier shack in Freetown,Sierra Leone

Technology in this dynamic world is getting powerful with each generation, so with mobile phones.  The secret lies in new compact Microsystems which combine a wide range of functions in a tiny space.  Their high electronic integration density and complexity, however, makes it difficult to locate or diagnose faults.  Our so-called Sierra Leonean technicians who claim to possess expertise in finding and repairing mobile phones should first of all

Approximate estimation about the number of candidates that vied for the All Peoples Congress party symbol for the Municipal and Local Council election 2008 could be pegged around 500 plus. It may sound amazing at this time after 11years in political wangling, dazzling and yeaning to be at the centre stage of political governance of the state, people are still interested in the APC party.